diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b97cf91..1b99474 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ _site
 .tweet-cache
 Gemfile.lock
 vendor
-
+robots.txt
diff --git a/robots.txt b/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index a450fbe..0000000
--- a/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-permalink: /robots.txt
----
-User-agent: *
-Disallow:
-
-Sitemap: {{ site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}/sitemap.xml